Check on some new items from Geek. First is a joke police baton electric shocker. See me get a surprise electric shock for it. The second item is a wireless Bluetooth stereo sound bar. I unbox them and review the items.

Back in the 90’s when the Internet was the playground for nerds in college they created the Geek Code to show off our geekiness. It increadiblely out of date especially with DOOM!, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Usenet, Kibo, and Dilbert. It really needs to be updated. USENET can be replaced with Reddit and Dilbert can be changed with web comics. That should be updated for the times. Well below is my geek code. Click here to decode.

One of my dreams is to run my only new media outlet (i.e. Nerdist, Rooter Teeth, or Geek & Sundry) creating web series and podcasts. I had some ideas about shows I could put on. Here is a list:

Drone Racing Circuit – Travel to different drone races and broadcast them like they do with auto racing.

E-Sports League – Where teams will complete face to face every week in a round robin regular season and then a playoff to the championships. Do this for the popular games like Call of Duty, Overwatch or League of Legends, each having there own league.

The Con Patrol – Go to different conventions like SDCC, E3, or WorldCon and talk to the celebrities and show the guest and attractions.

Primo Destructo – Lastly I thought it would be fun to have a robot like in Battlebots that would attack different objects and see what happens when they get destroyed.

Back in 2006-ish I was introduced to podcasting by a friend at the time. Being a fan of sci-fi I got into Escape Pod and Galacticast. Would download them and then transfer them to PDA. Over time I found out about Podiobooks and others that are non-scifi. It inspired me to make my own. So I made started making my own.

I started with The Radical Geek Video Podcast. I thought that video would show the visual aspects of the geek community. (Videos are in past posts) Then there was Literary Wasteland. Did 5 episodes of it were I would review self published speculative fiction. I stopped that one because I am terrible with monologues because there is no feedback.

If I am going to make another podcast I would like to have a partner because I like feedback. I don’t know what it will be about, but that is part of the fun. Maybe do a Hogan’s Heroes introcast.

I am a member of Interlock Rochester, which is a local hacker space. People there are working on projects and I though that I make something that is fun. So I made a Festivus pole like mentioned in an episode of Seinfeld. The pole is supposed to be unadorned. I started with a aluminum shower curtain rod with a flange and some 1/2 inch thick MDF.

Then I cut the MDF to an 8 inch square as the base.

Attached the flange to the center of the board.

Put some electrical tape to the end in the flange so it will stay in and pole for Festivus for the rest of us.

Just want to tell people I will be at BarCamp Rochester giving a presentation and manning the Interlock Rochester table. BarCamp is what they call an Unconference where the participants can give a presentation by placing it on a blank schedule. There are a lot of interesting talks. Mostly science/technical subjects but there are some non-tech one. I was at one that was for comedy improv. If you want to come down it will be at RIT in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences at 10:00 am. It is worth checking out.